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<text id=92TT0468>
<title>
Mar. 02, 1992: Run Silent, Run Deep
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Mar. 02, 1992 The Angry Voter
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
GRAPEVINE, Page 15
RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP
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<p>By Janice Castro/Reported by Wendy Cole
</p>
<p> Tom Clancy would love it: an ungainly ship with a
state-of-the-art silent propulsion system that is virtually
undetectable, even at speeds up to 115 m.p.h. Last month Japan
launched the prototype. Christened the YAMATO (also the name of
the imperial navy's World War II flagship), the vessel is the
first in the world propelled by superconducting magnets that
generate a powerful jet of water. Such a stealth design so far
exists only in the imaginations of Western engineers. The
Yamato, of course, is not a warship. But if Japan wanted to
build a war machine, it has just the technology for a formidable
fleet.
</p>
</body></article>
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